From Here to Eternity (1980)

Genre

drama, soap

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 12 episodes

Rating

4.2 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This miniseries follows soldiers and their families at an army base in Hawaii before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Two separate love affairs develop, one between a first sergeant and his commanding officer's wife, and the other between a private and a prostitute.

romantictensenostalgicdramaticslow-burnmelancholicperiod-piecesoapy

What happens

From Here to Eternity is a 1979 American three-part, six-hour television miniseries and a remake of the 1953 film From Here to Eternity based on the 1951 novel of the same name. All three conclude with the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. The miniseries originally aired in three two-hour installments on three consecutive Wednesdays on NBC on February 14, 21 and 28, 1979. The story details the men and families of G Company, 24th Infantry Division, United States Army. There are two main sub-plots: First Sergeant Milt Warden’s (William Devane) ongoing affair with Karen Holmes (Natalie Wood), the wife of his commanding officer, and Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt's (Steve Railsback) affair with Lorene Rogers (Kim Basinger), a local prostitute. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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